The Admiral, having admired, slipped away to the library, encouraged by Petronella's whispered: "Oh, uncle dear, leave us alone for just a little minute.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

and when the Diplomatist called on the party, faithful to his promise, Jos received him with such a salute and honours as were seldom accorded to the little Envoy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

To each board was fastened a looped string for the purpose of tethering the vagrant spirits, and through the loop each baby was made to pass a chubby finger to make sure that its tiny soul would not wander away.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And besides these, there were in reserve in Sicily and Tarentum two legions, each of which consisted of about four thousand two hundred foot, and two hundred horse.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Thou dost now flourish, and hast bona animi, corporis, et fortunae , goods of body, mind, and fortune, nescis quid serus secum vesper ferat , thou knowest not what storms and tempests the late evening may bring with it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Thus they laid themselves on the bed together; but the son of Atreus strode among the throng, looking everywhere for Alexandrus, and no man, neither of the Trojans nor of the allies, could find him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Probably the most interesting interview, at least to Pittsburghers, was that had with Mrs. Montgomery Wilcox, of Philadelphia, who was on one of the Pullman sleepers attached to the lost express train.
— from The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

“For he right well in leech’s craft was seen; And through the long experience of his days, Which had in many fortunes tossèd been, And passed through many perilous assays: He knew the divers want of mortal ways,
— from The Hermits by Charles Kingsley

Then she arose, and looked with joy at the rising sun, but her gaze returned to Sigurd; and the two loved each other at first sight.
— from Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

she asked turning those liquid eyes of hers on my face.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The failure of railways was confidently predicted—indeed, it was elaborately attempted to be proved that they had failed; and it was industriously spread abroad that the locomotive engines, having been found useless and highly dangerous on the Liverpool and Manchester line, were immediately to be abandoned in favor of horses—a rumor which the directors of the company thought it necessary publicly to contradict.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

In that event the slavery question would ere this have been finally settled according to the legally expressed will of a majority of the voters, and popular sovereignty would thus have been vindicated in a constitutional manner.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The young man swung himself from the saddle and turned to lift Edith from her perch as though she was a little child.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

H2 anchor CHAPTER IV Margaritis was seated in an arm-chair covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, near the window of the salon, and he did not stir as the two ladies entered with Gaudissart.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

[647:C] There was an apprehension felt by some at this time lest England, in order to prevent France from assisting the colonies, should offer to divide them with her.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell